and that breaking news is happening near l.a. right now. this is a live look at the backup that is the result of a bus, a tour bus, that has overturned on the 210 freeway in the inland everybody fire area, specifically in irwin dale. fire crews on scene tell us there are between 30 and 40 victims. the bus apparently crashed into a big rig. this happened less than an hour ago. chopper above the scene this is a live look here, you just see the backup this is in the east bound direction. >> wow. >> the cars on the right side of your screen, westbound, moving looks like nearly at the limit but we have video earlier of the accident and it shows dozens of fire and ambulances responding

on scene, as you can imagine. a medical helicopter landed in the middle of the freeway to take victims to the hospital. >> no word on deaths but again, a tour bus overturns near l.a. there are nearly 30 to 40 people being treated. we will keep an eye on this breaking news story for you and you can see in this video, this is now video of someone on the stretcher being take answer way. >> wow a rough scene down there >> good morning, thanks for being with us, i'm marla tellez. >> i'm jon kelley. good morning, everyone. happening now, a wildfire on the outxoifrts yosemite has more than trip reallied in size with 2500 buildings now threatened by those flames. christie is smith is live in san

leandro with more on what happened. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the rim fire has literally exploded overnight. i had to check the numbers twice to make sure they were accurate. it jumped by 38,000 acres this morning since the last count yesterday but bay area firefighters, they continue to answer the call. this morning, the al meet da county fire department sent another strike team, made up of 22 firefighters, there are actually now three strike teams, two local and one office of emergency services strike team from the bay area helping out now. more than 1300 firefighters, now just 2% contained that's down from 5% earlier. it is a massive, smoky fire that's spreading to the southeast edge of highway 120 near yosemite and grove land. suppression is expected to improve with the help of military-type aircraft. it's also much cooler now, but the fire jumped at containment line near the firefighters' base camp. nine structures burned. the sheriff's department advising resident notice community of pine mountain lake

to stay away. these are voluntary evacuation and resident he is as are liste >> tying up the last of the load to get out of here. pictures and important stuff. >> i'm hoping that it will stop. i'm hoping. but my grandson is fighting it. >> reporter: some of the homes are los angeles les than a mile from the fire line. you can understand their extreme concern there the cherry lake campground was also evacuated and structure protection continues at bay area camps tawonga and tennessee, camp highway 120 closed, yosemite jammed to get to. many other agencies helping out, 54,000 acres burned, to give you perspective, i was looking this up online, been to uc berkeley, a fairly large campus, that is only 1300 acres. that is the latest from here, live in san leann direct examination christie smith, nbc

bay area news. to fires of a different sort, developing news in the financial world. the nasdaq market has been shut down, nothing trading for almost two hours now business and tech reporter scott mczbru in the newsroom. how big a problem is this and do we know what happened? >> an all electronic market, marla, i suppose we can say the problem is electronic, a glitch of some sort. they have a ceremony every morning to start the nasdaq. it is entirely computer based. you can see folks at 6:30 our time you 9:14 our time exactly, the market shut down. if you have an open order it is still valid, your buy or sell will execute when the market comes back online. they told us they will give us a five-minute warning when that happens. right now the mark heats been offline for one hour and 44

minutes, the index stuck at 3631. to marla's second question, how big of a deal is this? not the end of the world. financial markets are supposed to survive anything. the trust that we have in them, the trust that we have that remains is that these things work all the time. so, for the nasdaq, john, particularly embarrassing because the bumbling with facebook's ipo, companies here in the bay area, remember, get decide generally which market they want to be trade and more and more have been choosing nasdaq competitor, new york stock exchange. again, one hour and 45 minutes now. >> rough day for the nasdaq. scott, thank you very much for the update, know you will keep your eyes ton for us. international scene, the israeli military says a total of four rockets fired toward israel from lebanon, none landing in its territory. military spokesman says one of the rockets was intercepted by israel's iron domed defense system. the others did not land in israel. he said light damage to a street and vehicle in northern israel was likely caused from the

fallout from the rocket defense system. another military leader says the attempted attack appears to be an isolated incident. he is no longer bradley manning. the army private sentenced to military prison for seeking classified documents says he plans to live out the rest of his life as a woman to and wants to be called chelsea. in a statement read the "today" show this morning, manning's attorney says, the private wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible and wants people to use the new name and feminine pronoun in reference. the spokesperson for the army responded to today's announcement saying the military does not provide hormone therapy or sex reassignment surgery. manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison yesterday for leaking more than 700,000 documents to the wikileaks website while in iraq in 2010. for the very first time, southern california teenager hannah anderson is speaking out about her kidnapping that led toon amber alert across six states. anderson speaking exclusively to

the "today" show this morning. she was kidnapped in southern california earlier this month and rescued eventually in idaho after abductor james dimaggio was gunned down by police. the bodies of both her mother and her brother were found in dimaggio's burned home. dimaggio says her mother is the reason she is able to see herself as a survivor. >> in the beginning, i was a victim. but now, knowing everyone out there is helping me, i consider myself a survivor instead. my mom raised me to be strong. >> didn't get a chance to catch that we have posted hannah's full interview on our website, nbcbayarea.com. all you have to do is search hannah haanderson. firefighters battiling a house fire in halfway make a discovery ofdroefrsd marijuana plants. they responded to garage fire lon laurie way at 10:30 last

night. when they went inside, they found a marijuana grow operation. they found the plants four to five feet tall and several areas of the home, including three bedrooms and also the garage. >> there's multiple plants in each room of this three-bedroom house, i would guesstimate over 200 plants. >> amazing. i never knew anything like that was going on here in the neighborhood. >> no one was home at the time of the fire. the exact cause is under investigation, but officials say it appears to have started outside near an electrical meter. we now know a tech worker shot and killed at an east san jose restaurant was a father who had another baby on the watch police telling us the victim is 36-year-old shin win, win was inside a restaurant on alum rock avenue monday night when he and two other men were shot. that other victim is expected to survive. the mercury news reporting win worked at juniper networks and lived with his wife and his

3-year-old daughter in south san jose. win's wife is reportedly right now in her third trimester of pregnant which is a son on the way. no arrests have been made and whip's death now marking the city's 31st homicide of the year. the mountain view police department is crediting one of its k-9s with a major meth bust. here is a picture of a dog named zeus, zeus sitting next to that stash. police say he sniffed out two pounds of meth yesterday. he found the meth inside of a hidden compartment in a hidden vehicle r he also found the drug money in a loaded handgun next to it. oakland police call thug one an old school crime with a new twist. this morning, the department warning everybody in the bay area to be very much on the lookout for fake utility workers. a man dressed as a pg&e worker came to their home tuesday

afternoon. this is in the upscale crocker high lands neighborhood. the man says he is there to check the easement in the backyard of the neighborhood project. that guy was nice, very professional but while he was in that backyard with the team, another man was inside the home stealing $5 to $10,000 in jewelry and cash. the victims, they didn't realize they had been ripped off until the men were gone. >> we lived here 45 years, always felt very secure. i don't know how long it will take, if we ever get that back. >> one of the suspects was wear a hard gatt hat and gloves, the other wearing a tan fisherman-style hat. police say remember, do not let anybody inside of your home without first showing proper identification. coming up, we are less than a week from the bay bridge shutting down completely to traffic. we will take a look at the new animation to get drivers ready for the switch to the new span,

plus a safe will new safety warning cal trans wants everyone to hear. this is bob redell. a relic of the cold war finds a new home here on the peninsula. we will tell you how in the world the berlin wall need to mountain view. that story, coming up. great news in the weather department. temperatures nights and comfortable out there today. we are headed towards a cool down just in time for the weekend. a lot of microclimates out there now. let you know what that means for where you live. back to the breaking news that we are following in southern california, you are looking at an overturned tour bus that crashed on eastbound interstate 210 this is just outside of los angeles and 30 to 35 people said to be on this bus, according to chp. many of them injured, the extent of their injuries not known, officials saying most of the injuries we are happy to report

not considered life threatening. but the 210 portion, eastbound direction, currently shut down. traffic heading westbound moving along okay, past the scene. if is something we are keeping our eye on. stay with us. do you see the 10% back in points, aw baby, i'm seeing triple again. plus another 10%, plus free shipping? yeah. you're good. this is the member triple play deal. this is sears.

a monumental anniversary next week, marking a very critical moment in the civil rights movement. it's been nearly 50 years now since martin luther king junior's march on washington, d.c. and of course, that famous "i have a dream" speech. three days before making that historic speech, he aed on n-- e appeared on nbc's "meet the press." >> i think we must face the fact

that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. >> nbc bay area will be reairing the entire interview for you to much catch. watch our "meet the press" special edition, "remembering the dream" sunday mourning at 7:30. also fined some pretty amazing content on our website, including historic video and photos from that march as well as events commemorating the 50th anniversary also on our website. simply go to nbcbayarea.com. well, we have admired the new bay bridge from afar for years now, but are we ready to drive it? the new span is scheduled to open in less than two weeks and cal trans says it will be a completely different driving experience. to avoid confusion for drivers, the agency just releasing this brand new animation what the trip across the new bridge will look like. some driver says they will be taking it slow while others say they plan to avoid the span for the first few days.

>> be very cautious. >> just because it might be scary, people might not be familiar with it, you never know what could happen, might be really hectic. i think i might b.a.r.t. my first few days in. >> this animation reminds me of "pole positions." >> i'm wing now. >> caltrans is warning drive mothers to the pull over on the shoulders of the bridge to take shoulders, those are for emergencies only. see the full test drive on our website, nbcbayarea.com. >> the bridge has broad shoulders, we will be fine. a couple pieces from world

history found a new home. two portions of the berlin wall are now on display. bob redell has more. bob, pretty cool, aren't they? >> reporter: yeah, the first time in a public space here in the bay area. good morning to you, marla. looking at those two sections of the berlin wall that once separated the east from the west, once represented the conflict between communism and democracy. they found a home outside the public library. one of the more unusual installation jobs for city workers and contractors, they man knewered these two towering pieces into their final resting place outside the library entrance. as you see, still doing some of that work, a process that required a lot of care, considering each piece stands almost 12 feet high, weighs close to three tons apiece. now, up until now, these historical artifacts were on display at a privately owned business park in mountain view the man who built that property brought the pieces over from germany in 1990, less than a year after the wall fell.

last year, his surviving children sold that property to google. the internet giant wasn't flood keeping the piece on their property but the city of mountain view was more than happy to receive that generous donation from the ghoulson family. >> long after i'm dead and gone, these two pieces of the wall will be here as a reminder to americanss as to our philosophy of democracy and capitalism and how important it is for people to live in freedom and liberty. >> what would your dad think? >> i think he would be proud. i know he would be proud. too bad he is not here today. he would be so enthusiastic and thankful the city received our donation. >> reporter: interesting backstory on how ghoulson acquired the pieces. his father, born in germany, went back to his homeland after the wall fell in '89 to try to buy one of the segments, it was too expensive, he waited six to

nine months for the interest to die down this time when he returned, these wall segments were being crushed for base rock for use in construction. not only did he get a good deal, the germans surprised him by sending him two segments instead of just the one he paid for. those two segments right here again, not sure exactly where they stood along that line, close to checkpoint charlie or someone else, but now permanent home outside the mountain view public library. here in mountain view, bob redell, nbc bay area news. we want to get you breaking news happening on the peninsula that is where the hazmat team is right now at the san mateo county government center in redwood city. this building has been evacuated after a county worker opened up a letter containing what they are saying is a mysterious powdery substance. that employee instantly felt sick after opening up that letter. apparently, this was an overnight package the employee opened up this morning. crews are there right now, checking the scene as you can see them there. going to spend some time analyzing that letter to find out and try to really see

exactly what made the woman sick. once again, the hazmat team out there in redwood city, investigating a powdery substance they found in an nfl. let's go ahead and take a look at the forecast now. very nice day throughout the bay area. the red flag warnings no longer. >> yeah. just to our north, they still stand. taking a live look here, mostly cloudy conditions, calm conditions, flight delays, an house, i want to show you, too amazing video, this is from southern louisiana where a sinkhole swallows up several tall fleece a matter of seconds, really impressive video here. the sinkhole has been growing since last august. as a result, you can see what happened there. that is very interesting stuff to show you. meanwhile, much quieter here. temperatures are really comfortable out there 68, livermore, 60, oakland, 70 degrees right now in gilroy. comfortable conditions persist. this is where we are looking for that red flag warning.

it will continue likely for the next couple of days. want to show you the realtime lightning strikes are coming down now. mostly up op mostly up over the cascades, good news forth firefighting efforts for yosemite. take it back local, show you where the clouds are right now, onshore flow, picking up, cloudy conditions, san jose now, take it to your futurecast, show you the rest of the day, sunshine, full sunshine expected by 3 p.m. those clouds back onshore, head through the overnight hours, look at your highs today, a return to fog, a return to cooler-than-average weather here in the bay area, 87, livermore, 67, san francisco, 79 on the way to redwood city. we head through the all-important weekend, we are so close to it right now, tomorrow, another unseasonably cool day, bay side, at the coast, pretty warm inland, drop off saturday into sunday, monday and tuesday, temperatures start to heat back up. overall, not too bad, triple

digits, done with that fire danger the next week. back to you two. >> thanks so much. we will be right back.

an iconic painting is back home in san francisco. we have some new video from this morning to show you when crews unloaded the newly restored pied piper of hamlin by max field parish there it is, all of its glory. >> good looking painting. it is huge t is going back up in its original location behind the piper bar at the palace hotel. it is right on montgomery, new montgomery and market street it hung in the hotel more than a century but in april, it was taken down and sent to new york to be auctioned off. that didn't happen and instead, the painting spent the last four months undergoing a complete restoration to remove more than 100 years of dirt and grime from its surface. the painting will be officially unveiled to the public this

evening. on the peninsula, firefighters thought doing a good deed in belmont, hitting the streets this morning, asking people to fill the boot. you probably get the idea. this is all part of an annual campaign to benefit the muscular dystrophy association. the firefighters, they have been out near the carl month shopping center collecting donations since about 7:30 this morning. looks like a lot of generous people there. these firefighters, the men who helped in so many ways, they will be out there until 1:00. last year, good news, they raised about $3,000. if you happen to see these gentlemen, dig deep and help out the cause. >> and ladies, sure there are ladies out there. >> i guess so >> we will be right back.

we have just learned that riding on the nasdaq will resume in 20 minutes, so, just before noon. thanks for being with us. the next newscast ask at 5:00.

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